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October 5, 2011

Books

"Start Something that Matters"

Philanthropic entrepreneur to release first book about his success

After founding a successful line of canvas shoes and sunglasses, the man behind TOMS has found another way to give back — but this time, it’s bound to a spine and not a sole. Blake...

Poetry month is not ‘pointless’

In honor of poetry month I have decided to take the time to review a book on poetry out this April. Now, I know what many of you may be thinking, “Wow, it’s poetry...

Debut novel doesn’t measure up

Tea Obreht’s book, “The Tiger’s Wife,” recently made its way to bookstore shelves with surprising fanfare for a novel written by a 25-year-old author without any other titles to her name. Obreht was lauded by...

At Pech Kucha night artists and others got the chance to display images like this one and talk about them in the 20 seconds they were allotted. | Courtesy of Monica Grace

Pecha Kucha night at Domy books an experience for everyone

Twenty slides, 20 seconds and a unique opportunity to see and be seen. Ten members of Houston’s creative community participated in the city’s third Pecha Kucha Night Thursday at Domy Books in the...

Now that school is back in session, we have to pick up our textbooks and settle in to the daily grind, but over the summer we can escape into the fantasies of novels and comic books. | Kendra Berglund/The Daily Cougar

Passing the summer in the pages of a book

I didn’t read as many books as usual this summer.  This is partly because two of the books on my list, “The Bible”, and “The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel”, are mammoth, but mostly because...

A look at an author’s attempt to find love without sex

British journalist Hephzibah Anderson’s memoir “Chastened: The Unexpected Story of My Year Without Sex,” follows her year-long experimentation with celibacy after she realizes that she has misunderstood the relationship between love and sex. Following the...